For now, and as far down the road as we can see, history has proved Schumpeter wrong on several accounts. As the intellectual class evolved, it was not immune to the capitalist culture of innovation, competition, and choice. Thriving on disagreement, intellectuals generated a competitive marketplace of ideas in which critical perceptions of capitalism vie […]
День: 17.09.2015
Schumpeter’s Error
For now, and as far down the road as we can see, history has proved Schumpeter wrong on several accounts. As the intellectual class evolved, it was not immune to the capitalist culture of innovation, competition, and choice. Thriving on disagreement, intellectuals generated a competitive marketplace of ideas in which critical perceptions of capitalism vie […]
Cos Angeles (Times
Foreign Women and Children Can Leave Iraq, Hussein Says Imagine a law requiring our daughters to enter a jungle and risk being shot through their heads. If you heard a news report lamenting that innocent men and children were being shot, would you want to shout, "Wait a minute, my daughter is innocent too!”? We […]
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAKING MEN DISPOSABLE
ITEM The Defense Department gave $2 mdlion to Louisiana State University to study how to return brain-injured soldiers to battle (rather than help them adjust to civilian life) The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine protested. But wait… The protest was not over the recycling of brain-in/ured men, it was over the subjection of cats to […]
NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL ETHICS
The question was complicated by disagreements over how to define natural law, and how to conceive of human understanding. Essentially, though, there were two poles of opinion. The orthodox view throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was that the law of nature was entirely consistent with the moral law laid down in the Bible. All […]
CONTROVERSIES
Financing Long-Term Care The current system of financing long-term care in the United States is in very serious trouble. The average cost of a private room is close to $80,000 per year (New York Life, 2007) and is by far the leading catastrophic health care expense. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2007) estimates […]
Who Is Likely to Live in Nursing Homes?
Who is the typical resident of a nursing home? She is over age 85, European American, recently admitted to a hospital, lives in a retirment home rather than being a homeowner, is congitively impaired, has problems with IADLs, is probably widowed or divorced, and has no siblings or children living nearby (Davis & Lapane, 2004). […]
Structure and Structural Analysis
The concept of‘social structure’, though fundamental to the social sciences, is ambiguous. Its usages range from the tight and sophisticated models of Piaget, Levi-Strauss and Althusser to the much more numerous cases where anything that shows a detectable pattern at all is called a ‘structure’. Most writing about gender is well towards the latter end […]
Types of Nursing Homes
Nursing homes house the largest number of older residents of long-term care facilities. They are governed by state and federal regulations that establish minimum standards of care. Two levels of care in nursing homes are defined in U. S. federal regulations (Ebersole et al., 2004). Skilled nursing care consists of 24-hour care including skilled medical […]
School textbooks, readers and songs
School readers for girls, which began to appear several years before the Qing government’s formal sanction of public education for women in 1907, reinforced the idea that girls were the future ‘mothers of the nation’ (guomin zhi mu) responsible for the cultivation of patriotic sons.172 Furthermore, as a reader published in 1905 insisted, women’s principal […]